Turner, Bryan StanleyM. Featherstone2025-10-162008978144621432910.4135/9781446214329https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14802/9483Originally published in 1984, The Body and Society flew against prevailing trends which asked sociologists to understand society in terms of abstractions such as structure, class and function. Instead, in a series of dazzling chapters, Bryan S Turner argued that the body should be the axis of sociological analysis. The Second Edition of this ground-breaking book includes a new introduction which analyzes the social changes which have given a special prominence to the body in contemporary social theory, and develops Turner's own notion of a ‘somatic society’, a society within which major political and personal problems are both problematized in the body and expressed through it.Book2-s2.0-84950290726Controlled201047002